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Kasey Wu
Digital Animation Instructor
Kasey Wu is an illustrator, animator, and a lover of creativity. Drawing ever since she could hold
a pencil, Kasey has been posting her art and animations online since middle school. Now, she
finds herself studying at the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in Arts and Entertainment
Technologies. She is currently located in Austin, Texas. Driven by the need to create art and
animations that inspire others as well as herself, Kasey strives to ignite that spark of creativity
with her work. Kasey spends her free time crafting stories, working on personal animation
projects, and enjoying bad puns.
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English Vocabulary, Reading, Writing and Public Speaking/Debate Instructors
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Tristin Hooker
SAT/ACT Essay Writing, College Application Essay Writing Instructor
Tristin Hooker, M.A., M.A.T. is third-year Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and holds a Master of Arts in Writing Studies from Missouri State University and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Southern California. She has been working in K-12 and higher education, both seated and online, for more than ten years as a writing and literacy instructor, disability support services coordinator, and the founding coordinator of the Writing and Learning Lab at Ozarks Technical Community College Table Rock Campus. She also currently serves as the Assistant Director of Lower Division Writing in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT-Austin, and as the Associate Editor of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal.
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Nina Cline
English Reading and Writing Instructor
Nina has been teaching in ACES for two years, and has been loved and praised by students. She raised in Fort Worth, TX, and obtained B.A. summa cum laude in French and Spanish from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2013. In 2017, Nina completed her M.A in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas. Prior to her graduate studies at UT Austin, Nina taught French and Spanish at Fort Worth Country Day for 2 years. Since She began her PhD at UT in 2015, she have taught required composition and literature courses for the Department of Rhetoric & Writing. This past academic year Nina was appointed the Plan II Honors Thesis course instructor, working with students in their final year as they develop their interdisciplinary projects and compose their Thesis.
Nina have presented her own work at Harvard’s Institute for World Literature (2016), the International Nineteenth-Century Studies conference (2017), the 53rd Comparative World Literature Conference (2018), the Nineteenth-Century French Studies annual colloquium (2018), and the 2019 Modern Language Association Convention. She was selected by the UT Retired Faculty and Staff Association as a RFSA Scholarship recipient in 2017-18, and her Master’s Report was selected for the 2018 André Lefevere MA Prize for Literary and Cultural Translation and Exchange. In addition to her academic endeavors, she works with the educational non-profit Inside Literature, which offers world literature courses at the Travis County Correctional Complex.
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Dr. Deb Streusand
SAT Foundation Reading/Writing
Deb Streusand holds a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as two Master’s degrees—English and Theatre—and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College. She has four years of classroom teaching experience in writing and English. For the last five years, she has tutored students from 2nd to 11th grades in Reading, Writing, and SAT prep.
Teaching is one of her favorite things to do. Specifically, she is passionate about finding ways to help each student understand and care about what they are learning. Having a theatre degree allows her to get students excited about the material through an engaging teaching style.
Her SAT course will help students become comfortable taking the test by learning techniques to handle the way it is set up and demonstrate their knowledge in its specific format. Studying English with her, students will learn to appreciate how writers use language to express their thoughts; they will also discover their own writing voices as they go. She looks forward to meeting her new students!
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Abby Artmann
English Writing Instructor
Abby grew up in Texas surrounded by the beautiful hill country. She was homeschooled and has a deep love for learning as well as a curiosity for the world around her. As an undergraduate student at Duke University, she developed a passion for teaching and coaching which led to her career in teaching. She went on to get her M.A. in Teaching while also teaching 6th and 7th grade math full time.
Abby is excited to continue her teaching endeavors at ACES and begin working with students to build confidence and develop the same love for learning that was instilled in her!
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John McDonald
English Reading, Writing and Vocabulary Instructor
John received his PhD in Political Science at the University of Houston. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from UT Austin in 2013. His research focuses on the Liberal/ Communitarian debate and the concept of value pluralism. John is an avid sports enthusiast with a passion for teaching. During the school year, he serves as a teaching assistant in Political Science. He has taught at ACES Academic Enrichment Center since 2016.
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Jakob Lucas
Public Speaking/Debate Instructor
Jakob is a senior Government major at the University of Texas at Austin. He attributes his passion for studying the intersection of religion, politics, and philosophy to his years of competitive high school debate in the Galveston, Texas area.
As a volunteer counselor with a local Boy Scout troop, an associate counselor at Texas Boys State, and a student leader on the Forty Acres, Jakob loves working with the next generation of world-changers and discussing the importance of civic engagement.
His Public Speaking and Debate courses will teach students how to improve their communication abilities, construct persuasive arguments, and perhaps most importantly, how to move from conflicts to common understandings. Through drills, discussions, practice rounds, and more, students will have the opportunity to learn all of these skills.
Jakob is also the newly elected Speaker of the UT Austin Student Government Assembly which is the largest student organization in UT Austin.
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Rebacca Harrison
Public Speaking & Debate
Rebecca Harrison is currently studying linguistics and French at the University of Texas at Austin. Starting from her freshman year of high school, Rebecca fell head-over-heels in love with speech and debate and dedicated the next four years of her life to competing at the state and national level in a multitude of different events, with her specialty being in public speaking and speech-writing. In her senior year, she was elected to the president of her high school public speaking and debate team, during which time she acted not only as a competitor, but also as an assistant coach.
Through this class, Rebecca aims to teach your children how to communicate effectively, builds strong arguments, and disagrees with one another amicably. The primary goal of speech and debate is not to teach children to win arguments and earn trophies, but rather how to look at the world from different perspectives and understand others’ points of view. By cultivating a classroom environment of positivity and respectful dissent, Rebecca intends to accomplish this very goal. It has always been her personal, firmly-held belief that nothing more perfectly captures the essence of the human spirit than effective and thoughtful communication, so it is Rebecca’s hope and intention to pass along her love of speech and debate to the next generation of leaders.
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Daniel Shi
Public Speaking/Debate Instructor
Daniel is an incoming freshman at the University of Pennsylvania studying business economics
and finance. He debated for four years at Westwood High School and has won multiple national
tournaments and the TFA state championship. Daniel has taught multiple debate courses over
the years and loves teaching children of all ages.
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Dr. Taylor Schoberle
Biology Instructor
Taylor received her Master’s and Ph.D. from MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School in Houston, TX. Her work while in graduate school focused on fungal genetics and toxin production. After graduate school, Taylor was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in New York through the NIH that trains postdoctoral scholars in active learning techniques for future teaching careers. Her postdoctoral research focused on bacterial genetics and virulence factors. Taylor is currently teaching science to majors and non-majors at St. Edward’s University, in addition to assisting with several introductory and upper-level science courses at the University of Texas.
Taylor uses a combination of lectures and active learning to help students grasp the material and practice critical thinking. Hands-on activities are typically included in Taylor’s curriculum because evidence has shown that students better understand and retain information when working through problems in an active manner. Students should take this class to get a basic foundation in biology. This will help them prepare for pre-AP and AP biology courses in high school, hopefully making the school year less stressful and more fulfilling. This class will be geared towards pre-AP content and will cover four main topics in biology: Genetics, Cellular Systems, Evolution, and Ecological Systems.
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Brad Button
Physics Instructor
Dr Brad Button received his PhD degree in physics from University of Iowa and BS degree in Physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne. He taught physics and math at University of Houston-Victoria from 2014 to 2018. Dr Button has great interests and training in Quantum Field Theory, Particle Physics and Solid State Physics. Dr Button is humorous and loved by his students.
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William Wu
Computer Programming Instructor
William Wu is a rising freshman studying computer science at the University of California, San Diego. For the past four years, he has taught Java and Python to middle schoolers at ACE Coding Club (the name is a coincidence), where he served as Branch Director. He also taught Python at summer coding camps for elementary and middle schoolers in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, William earned every possible point on the AP Computer Science A exam and received the National Merit Scholarship from Battelle. He has also been developing his own mobile apps since 9th grade, available on the App Store, to help others study and work more efficiently. Finally, in his free time he enjoys writing custom data packs for Minecraft.
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Rory McDougal
Computer Programming Instructor
My name is Rory McDougal and I will be the Programming Instructor for the Scratch Classes 2020 summer. I am excited to work with your children to explore and discover how programming computers can be fun. Understanding technology has been an invaluable skill for me throughout life and I have a deep passion for sharing this understanding with kids. Programming is a valuable way to develop critical thinking skills and problem solving abilities. Not everyone will grow up to be a programmer but everyone can benefit from the problem solving experience programming provides.
In the classes, we will be exploring programming in a conceptual way. We will start with simple projects and work towards creating more complex stories and games. Our goal is to generate interest in computing and provide experience solving problems with technology. Scratch is an amazing programming language designed specifically for kids by MIT. Please visit the website at http://scratch.mit.edu to learn more about the language.
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Kevin Huang
Computer Programming Instructor
Rising Cornell freshman (Computer Science major). He started Java Programming in 9th grade. He started a computer science education club to teach competition programming. Kevin won USACO Gold in 2019. Outside of programming he also likes to play music, chess and read about boats.
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Chris Wang
Computer Programming Instructor
Chris Wang is a rising sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin studying computer science and business honors. Chris has experience teaching students of all ages in a variety of different subjects from math to science to English and enjoys the lightbulb moment students have when they learn something new. When not tutoring, Chris likes to read, make music, and exercise.
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Thomas Matzer
Math Instructor
I am a student at UT Austin studying mathematics, and will be studying mathematics next year at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In high school, I scored a 36 Composite on the ACT, and almost perfect score on the SAT, as well as qualifying for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) three times. Additionally, I coached a Mathcounts team in 2017, and they qualified for the State competition. Throughout my studies, I found that learning how to learn was the most important skill. In my class, I will teach my students to learn how to learn by teaching problem solving skills, educational maturity, and study skills. After taking my class, it is my hope that my students will be able to not only raise their test scores, but also know how to learn more efficiently and to approach education with a mature mindset.
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Rowechen Zhong
Math Instructor
Rowechen Zhong is currently a rising senior at Westwood High School. He has been selected into the US Math Olympiad Summer Program in 2021. His past achievement includes Mathcounts National Team, AMO, PuMac, HMMT and a variety of other competitions ARML, TAMU, and USAMTS. Outside of mathematics, his personal interests include physics, violin, computer programming, and swimming. He has qualified for the USAPho three times, qualified for the Gold division of USACO with a perfect score in Bronze and Silver Division, writing primarily in Java. He has also worked on several personal programming projects, writing in everything from Python to Html. Rowechen swims for the Nitro swim team in Texas.
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Dr. Jeremy Johnson
Physics Instructor
Jeremy received his PhD in Physics at UT Austin. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from UT Arlington. His experience includes a summer internship at the prestigious Fermilab. He is also a past recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award from the Physics Department of UT Austin. Jeremy has taught at ACES Academic Enrichment Center since 2013.
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Isabella Quan
Math Instructor
Isabella is a rising senior at Westlake High School. She is passionate about math and enjoys teaching students competitive and school math. She has won many math awards at national level over the last few years, including JMO, AMO, MOP. She had taught Math Academy at ACES during the spring semester and were highly recommended by students and parents alike.
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Deb Streusand
SAT Foundation Reading/Writing
Deb Streusand holds a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as two Master’s degrees—English and Theatre—and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College. She has four years of classroom teaching experience in writing and English. For the last five years, she has tutored students from 2nd to 11th grades in Reading, Writing, and SAT prep.
Teaching is one of her favorite things to do. Specifically, she is passionate about finding ways to help each student understand and care about what they are learning. Having a theatre degree allows her to get students excited about the material through an engaging teaching style.
Her SAT course will help students become comfortable taking the test by learning techniques to handle the way it is set up and demonstrate their knowledge in its specific format. Studying English with her, students will learn to appreciate how writers use language to express their thoughts; they will also discover their own writing voices as they go. She looks forward to meeting her new students!
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Sydney Zhou
SAT Foundation – Math Teacher
Sydney Zhou is a rising freshman at New York University’s Stern School of Business,
pursuing a concentration in Finance. She was a National Merit Finalist and a US Presidential
Scholars candidate. She has a perfect score on the SAT, PSAT, and Math II Subject Test.
Outside of math, she is interested in design and photography. She loves to meet new people
and is so excited to work on developing her students’ math skills!
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Claire Jahnke
SAT Intensive Workshop Instructor
My name is Claire Jahnke and I will be teaching the SAT Intensive Workshop class. I’m a junior at Rice University studying Chemistry, after graduating from Westwood High School in 2017. As I successfully completed my SATs fairly recently (National Merit Scholarship finalist and almost perfect SAT scores), I believe that the most important way to prepare for any standardized exam (PSAT, SAT or ACT) is to gain exposure to the content of past tests. I will teach keeping in mind the different types of questions presented, the most heavily weighted content, and will also include testing strategies that I personally used. The class and instruction will be tailored to the needs of the students, and by the end, all students should feel confident and comfortable in their testing preparedness.
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Anirudh Iyer
SAT Intensive Workshop Instructor
Anirudh Iyer is a recent Graduate from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science and Arts (B.S.A)
degree in Neuroscience. He has been tutoring for several years in SAT reading, writing and math. He is passionate about teaching and his favorite SAT section is Reading.
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Andrew Lee
ACT Intensive Workshop Instructor
Rising freshman at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. majoring in Science,
Technology, and International Affairs. He was team captain of high school debate team. He has
perfect ACT score and near perfect SAT and on both the SAT Math II and SAT Physics subject
tests. He is currently volunteering in political campaigns and is excited to teach students how to
score higher on standardized tests.
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